1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:06,080 Hello, this is Father Paul and I'm glad we're taking this journey together to read the Bible 2 00:00:06,080 --> 00:00:09,400 in a year. 3 00:00:09,400 --> 00:00:13,840 Yesterday we heard about the visit of the Lord to Abraham and the prophecy he gave him regarding 4 00:00:13,840 --> 00:00:16,320 the birth of a son from Sarah. 5 00:00:16,320 --> 00:00:21,380 We also heard about the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah and how God saved Lot by literally 6 00:00:21,380 --> 00:00:22,840 walking him out of the city. 7 00:00:22,840 --> 00:00:27,320 Today we're going to hear about the birth of Isaac, the son that the Lord had promised 8 00:00:27,320 --> 00:00:33,120 Abraham in his visit, as well as the sacrifice that Abraham was called to do in the sacrifice 9 00:00:33,120 --> 00:00:36,920 of his son and how God saves Isaac in the last moment. 10 00:00:36,920 --> 00:00:38,520 Let's begin. 11 00:00:38,520 --> 00:00:43,480 Today's reading is from Genesis chapters 21 and 22. 12 00:00:43,480 --> 00:00:44,480 Chapter 21. 13 00:00:44,480 --> 00:00:50,840 And the Lord visited Sarah as he had said, and the Lord did for Sarah as he had spoken. 14 00:00:50,840 --> 00:00:55,800 For Sarah conceived and bore Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God 15 00:00:55,800 --> 00:00:57,520 had spoken to him. 16 00:00:57,520 --> 00:01:03,760 And Abraham called the name of his son, who was born to him, whom Sarah bore to him, Isaac. 17 00:01:03,760 --> 00:01:09,080 Then Abraham circumcised his son Isaac when he was eight days old, as God had commanded 18 00:01:09,080 --> 00:01:10,080 him. 19 00:01:10,080 --> 00:01:15,080 Now Abraham was one hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him. 20 00:01:15,080 --> 00:01:21,420 And Sarah said, God has made me laugh, and all who hear will laugh with me. 21 00:01:21,420 --> 00:01:27,200 She also said, Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children, for I have 22 00:01:27,200 --> 00:01:30,280 borne him a son in his old age. 23 00:01:30,280 --> 00:01:34,960 So the child grew and was weaned, and Abraham made a great feast on the same day that Isaac 24 00:01:34,960 --> 00:01:36,340 was weaned. 25 00:01:36,340 --> 00:01:42,120 And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, scoffing. 26 00:01:42,120 --> 00:01:46,840 Therefore she said to Abraham, Cast out this bondwoman and her son, for the son of this 27 00:01:46,840 --> 00:01:51,520 bondwoman shall not be heir with my son, namely with Isaac. 28 00:01:51,520 --> 00:01:55,280 And the matter was very displeasing in Abraham's sight because of his son. 29 00:01:55,280 --> 00:01:59,760 But God said to Abraham, Do not let it be displeasing in your sight because of the lad 30 00:01:59,760 --> 00:02:02,040 or because of your bondwoman. 31 00:02:02,040 --> 00:02:05,080 Whatever Sarah has said to you, listen to her voice. 32 00:02:05,080 --> 00:02:07,760 For in Isaac your seed shall be called. 33 00:02:07,760 --> 00:02:12,840 Yet I will also make a nation of the son of the bondwoman, because he is your seed. 34 00:02:12,840 --> 00:02:16,720 So Abraham rose early in the morning and took bread and a skin of water, and putting it 35 00:02:16,720 --> 00:02:22,040 on her shoulder, he gave it and the boy to Hagar and sent her away. 36 00:02:22,040 --> 00:02:25,400 Then she departed and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba. 37 00:02:25,400 --> 00:02:30,440 And the water in the skin was used up, and she placed the boy under one of the shrubs. 38 00:02:30,440 --> 00:02:34,840 Then she went and sat down across from him at a distance of about a bow-shot. 39 00:02:34,840 --> 00:02:38,560 For she said to herself, Let me not see the death of the boy. 40 00:02:38,560 --> 00:02:41,860 She sat opposite him and lifted her voice and wept. 41 00:02:41,860 --> 00:02:43,280 And God heard the voice of the lad. 42 00:02:43,280 --> 00:02:48,680 Then the angel of God called to Hagar out of heaven and said to her, What ails you Hagar? 43 00:02:48,680 --> 00:02:52,040 Fear not, for God has heard the voice of the lad where he is. 44 00:02:52,040 --> 00:02:57,760 Arise, lift up the lad and hold him with your hand, for I will make him a great nation. 45 00:02:57,760 --> 00:03:01,640 Then God opened her eyes and she saw a well of water. 46 00:03:01,640 --> 00:03:05,480 And she went and filled the skin with water and gave the lad a drink. 47 00:03:05,480 --> 00:03:10,780 So God was with the lad and he grew and dwelt in the wilderness and became an archer. 48 00:03:10,780 --> 00:03:15,560 He dwelt in the wilderness of Paran and his mother took a wife for him from the land of 49 00:03:15,560 --> 00:03:16,820 Egypt. 50 00:03:16,820 --> 00:03:22,080 And it came to pass at that time that Abimelech and Picol, the commander of his army, spoke 51 00:03:22,080 --> 00:03:26,040 to Abraham saying, God is with you in all that you do. 52 00:03:26,040 --> 00:03:31,280 Now therefore swear to me by God that you will not deal falsely with me, with my offspring 53 00:03:31,280 --> 00:03:36,000 or with my posterity, but that according to the kindness that I have done to you, you 54 00:03:36,000 --> 00:03:39,200 will do to me and to the land in which you have dwelt. 55 00:03:39,200 --> 00:03:41,420 And Abraham said, I will swear. 56 00:03:41,420 --> 00:03:46,080 And Abraham rebuked Abimelech because of a well of water which Abimelech's servants 57 00:03:46,080 --> 00:03:47,520 had seized. 58 00:03:47,520 --> 00:03:51,520 And Abimelech said, I do not know who had done this thing. 59 00:03:51,520 --> 00:03:55,300 You did not tell me, nor had I heard of it until today. 60 00:03:55,300 --> 00:04:00,360 So Abraham took sheep and oxen and gave them to Abimelech and the two of them made a covenant. 61 00:04:00,360 --> 00:04:04,860 And Abraham said, seven you lambs of the flock by themselves. 62 00:04:04,860 --> 00:04:09,120 Then Abimelech asked Abraham, what is the meaning of these seven you lambs which you 63 00:04:09,120 --> 00:04:10,960 have said by themselves? 64 00:04:10,960 --> 00:04:15,860 And he said, you will take these seven you lambs from my hand that they may be my witness 65 00:04:15,860 --> 00:04:18,080 that I have dug this well. 66 00:04:18,080 --> 00:04:23,220 Therefore he called that place Beersheba because the two of them swore an oath there. 67 00:04:23,220 --> 00:04:25,280 Thus they made a covenant at Beersheba. 68 00:04:25,280 --> 00:04:29,520 So Abimelech rose with Picol, the commander of his army, and they returned to the land 69 00:04:29,520 --> 00:04:30,840 of the Philistines. 70 00:04:30,840 --> 00:04:35,960 Then Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba and there called on the name of the Lord, 71 00:04:35,960 --> 00:04:37,640 the everlasting God. 72 00:04:37,640 --> 00:04:42,560 And Abraham stayed in the land of the Philistines many days. 73 00:04:42,560 --> 00:04:44,120 Chapter 22 74 00:04:44,120 --> 00:04:49,720 Now it came to pass after these things that God tested Abraham and said to him, Abraham, 75 00:04:49,720 --> 00:04:51,800 and he said, here I am. 76 00:04:51,800 --> 00:04:57,000 Then he said, take now your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land 77 00:04:57,000 --> 00:05:01,800 of Moriah and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains which I shall tell 78 00:05:01,800 --> 00:05:02,800 you. 79 00:05:02,800 --> 00:05:07,480 So Abraham rose early in the morning and saddled his donkey and took two of his young men with 80 00:05:07,480 --> 00:05:09,800 him and Isaac his son. 81 00:05:09,800 --> 00:05:14,240 And he split the wood for the burnt offering and arose and went to the place of which God 82 00:05:14,240 --> 00:05:15,240 had told him. 83 00:05:15,240 --> 00:05:19,840 Then on the third day Abraham lifted his eyes and saw the place afar off. 84 00:05:19,840 --> 00:05:24,760 And Abraham said to his young men, stay here with the donkey, the lad and I will go yonder 85 00:05:24,760 --> 00:05:27,540 and worship and we will come back to you. 86 00:05:27,540 --> 00:05:32,080 So Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering and laid it on Isaac his son and he took the 87 00:05:32,080 --> 00:05:35,600 fire in his hand and a knife and the two of them went together. 88 00:05:35,600 --> 00:05:40,600 But Isaac spoke to Abraham his father and said, my father, and he said, here I am my 89 00:05:40,600 --> 00:05:41,680 son. 90 00:05:41,680 --> 00:05:47,200 Then he said, look the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb for a burnt offering? 91 00:05:47,200 --> 00:05:52,720 And Abraham said, my son, God will provide for himself the lamb for a burnt offering. 92 00:05:52,720 --> 00:05:54,960 So the two of them went together. 93 00:05:54,960 --> 00:05:58,960 Then they came to the place of which God had told him and Abraham built an altar there 94 00:05:58,960 --> 00:06:00,880 and placed the wood in order. 95 00:06:00,880 --> 00:06:05,400 And he bound Isaac his son and laid him on the altar upon the wood. 96 00:06:05,400 --> 00:06:09,900 And Abraham stretched out his hand and took the knife to slay his son. 97 00:06:09,900 --> 00:06:14,560 But the angel of the Lord called to him from heaven and said, Abraham, Abraham. 98 00:06:14,560 --> 00:06:16,300 So he said, here I am. 99 00:06:16,300 --> 00:06:20,660 And he said, do not lay your hand on the lad or do anything to him. 100 00:06:20,660 --> 00:06:25,600 For now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only son, 101 00:06:25,600 --> 00:06:26,600 from me. 102 00:06:26,600 --> 00:06:31,920 Then Abraham lifted his eyes and looked, and there behind him was a ram caught in a thicket 103 00:06:31,920 --> 00:06:33,520 by its horns. 104 00:06:33,520 --> 00:06:37,800 So Abraham went and took the ram and offered it up for a burnt offering instead of his 105 00:06:37,800 --> 00:06:38,800 son. 106 00:06:38,800 --> 00:06:42,680 And Abraham called the name of the place the Lord will provide. 107 00:06:42,680 --> 00:06:47,520 As it is said to this day, in the mount of the Lord it shall be provided. 108 00:06:47,520 --> 00:06:52,680 And the angel of the Lord called to Abraham a second time out of heaven and said, by myself 109 00:06:52,680 --> 00:06:57,400 I have sworn, says the Lord, because you have done this thing and have not withheld your 110 00:06:57,400 --> 00:06:59,480 son, your only son. 111 00:06:59,480 --> 00:07:03,840 Blessing I will bless you, and multiplying I will multiply your descendants as the stars 112 00:07:03,840 --> 00:07:07,360 over the heaven and as the sand which is on the seashore. 113 00:07:07,360 --> 00:07:10,660 And your descendants shall possess the gate of their enemies. 114 00:07:10,660 --> 00:07:14,940 In your seed all the nations of the earth shall be blessed, because you have obeyed 115 00:07:14,940 --> 00:07:16,280 my voice. 116 00:07:16,280 --> 00:07:20,960 So Abraham returned to his young men, and they arose and went together to Beersheba, 117 00:07:20,960 --> 00:07:23,640 and Abraham dwelt at Beersheba. 118 00:07:23,640 --> 00:07:29,840 Now it came to pass after these things that it was told Abraham, saying, Indeed, Milka 119 00:07:29,840 --> 00:07:36,160 also has borne children to your brother Nahor, Ose his firstborn, Boz his brother, Kimwel 120 00:07:36,160 --> 00:07:43,020 the father of Aram, Fesid, Hazo, Pil dash, Yidlaf, and Bethuel. 121 00:07:43,020 --> 00:07:45,140 And Bethuel begot Rebekah. 122 00:07:45,140 --> 00:07:51,880 These eight, Milka bore to Nahor, Abraham's brother, his concubine whose name was Ryuma, 123 00:07:51,880 --> 00:08:00,880 also bore Teba, Gaham, Tahash, and Magah. 124 00:08:00,880 --> 00:08:04,520 I hope you enjoyed today's reading as much as I did, and I look forward to seeing you 125 00:08:04,520 --> 00:08:06,960 again tomorrow to continue on our journey. 126 00:08:06,960 --> 00:08:16,720 God bless you and have a great day.